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tfO -. i : if V, t. ,4, v m 1 I IV: Em RALElGHi N. C. t THURSDAY....... ...... .JANUARY l. 1ST9 1 i The Democratic party I has spoken na . Zebtjlon B, VaSos is for the third time its : candidate for United States Senator. I Its ;; utterance fa the expression of the will of the partyAand itjj Voice is theoice of au- ; ' thbrity. The end has come and finds us all working together for " the good of a common cause land forgetful of personal preferences and unmindful of past differ ences, more determined than ever to maintain the discipline and perfect the organization of the party upon which de pends the honor and welfare of North Car olina. . We congratulate, the State and the party therefore I most cordially upon the happy result. Zkbulok B. Vascb was bora in Bun- ombe county bn the thirteenth day of Mav. 1830. and no man in the State can boast a better lineage khan he: -His father, Davtb VanoH was a man of high charac-. . . . ... - 1 i . .. ter ana inteuigence, ana one wno, mougn 1 he preferred the! quiet walks of private life and never engaged in politics, was a most j excellent gentleman and estimable citizen. His grand father, CoL I) avid Vance, the el- . der, was a Revolutionary hero, who fought and was wounded at King's Mountain. Af ter the Revolutionary war he was Clerk of the Superior Court of Buncombe Until his death in 1812 I No man was his superior in accuracy in business and strict discharge of duty, In genial tendper,' hospitality, in tegrity and piety. Gov. Vance's uncle, Robeet Vance; at one time a member of Congress from the Mountain District and 'who "fell in .a I duel with Hon. Sam, P. ( Carson, was also a man of rare promise and popularity. Nor was his maternal ancestry of less .note, he being a grandson of Colonel Zsbulon Baibd, one of the best citizens of Bnncombe county, honored andrespected all his days and for many years a memberof the General Assembly. . But notwithstanding he may boast such lineage. Governor Vance is a self-made man, and owes jt his own talents and en ; ergy, his rapid advancement in life. He inherited bat little more than a library; but that library i he used to the greatest ad vantage, so that at the early age of sixteen the accuracy of ' his knowledge, especially in the English classics, as is stated by one well qualified toj j udge, was most astonish I ing. in the year he Dacamj a student at the University., Shortly after his return home the next fear, and shortly after ob taining license to practice law, he" was elected Solicitor for his county. But Zsb tjlon B. Vance was a statesman by nature, and "the charms of the law, with all its honors and emoluments, did not possess power enough to rule with undivided sway over him. It j was only in the political arena that he could find room and verge enough for the development of his real i nature. Accordingly, in 1851, he became a candidate for the House of Commons, as K it was then called, and was elected by his fellow citizens as the Representative of his native county, j He served only one term in the Legislature. In 1855, be was asso ciated with Col. John D. Him an in the editorial condu of the leading paper of the Whig parjy in that section of the State, the Asheville Spectator. ! In 1858, General Clinqmak, then the Representative in the United States Con- a gress from the Mountain District, was ap pointed by Governor Bkagg to 11 an un expired term in the United States Senate, caused by the! resignation of Hon. Asa Biggs, who had been appointed Judge of the United States Court for North Caro lina. Colonel ID avid Coleman and W. Wi Avert, Esq., of Burke, both Demo crats, became candidates to fill the unex pired term caused by General Cunoman's resignation. As soon however as the con : test had waxed, sufficiently warm, young Vance came forward as a Whig candi date. Coleman withdrew, but it was too . late ; a fatal breach had been -made in the Democratic paiity and Vance was elected. In 1859 he wasja candidate for re election for the next full regular term, and having firmly established himself in the affections of the people of the District, was 'able to defeat his old opponent, Colonel Coleman, T one of the best, purest, ablest, and most popular men that ever lived in the moun tains. He served in Congress until March; 1861. His course in Congress was emi nently conservative. He labored ; hard to stay the tide ofj Northern fanaticism and carefully refrained from language caicu lated to Increase sectional feeling. He sought rather to allay it. While a candir date- for re-election in 1861, the Ordinance of Secession was passed by the Convention on the 20th of May. preparations for war were already on foot, and Vance was no laggard In wajr. ?He responded, and at once, to the very first call to arms. He had not favored the secession movement, but he was a true North Carolinian,- and ready to obey the behests of his State at, all hazards at the hazard even of ; his lite. Before thj end of May, indeed on the very day the Ordinance of Secession was passed, he was Captain Vance, and had a splendid company in Camp , at .Raleigh. -: ". The call ofj President Lisooln upon North Carolina for tnxD3 to make war upon her sister! States had been sufficient for him. It needed not to wait for an or dinance of secession. His company was one of those that formed the Fourteenth Regiment, first commanded by that gal- ' lant soldier General Junius Daniel. Cap tain Vanok served with his regiment in Virginia until late In the fall or early win-. ter, when he waa elected Colonel of the Twenty-Sixth Regiment, in command of which he foueht at the battle of Newbern nd ia the fkrhts around Richmond. In August, 1862,! he was elected Governor, and'having resigned his colonelcy, was in augurated in the falT of that year, un der a special ordinance of the convention fixing the date of the beginning of his term of office. In 1863, he was reflected Gov ernor of the State His vigorous, earnest efforts for th0 successful prosecution of the war are matters of .common history. In April, 1865, he left Raleigh with General Jok Johnston's army, went to Greensboro, and from thence to Charlotte, where he joined President Davis. From Charlotte he went to Statesville, in Iredell county, to which place he had previously removed his family for safety and refuge. There he remained until some time in May, 1865, when he was arrested and carried to Washington City, j and imprisoned in the old " CapitoU" where hewas confined for several months. It-was while there that he gave one of his characteristic replies to the question asked, we believe, by old Tom'Cobwin, of Ohio, "What are you doing here, V anck H "I am here for a debt," f'You see," said he, 'at the beginning of the war' Holdkn promised to get in the last ditch and vote the last man and the last dollar to whip the Yankees. I went his security, and as he won't pay, they: have taken me with a eo. sa. and here I am." Mrs." Vanoe having fallen very ill, Governor Holden, at the solicitation of me of. Governor Vance's friends, and injj recogmuon 01 ,ine proiecuon extenaeu w Wm wheuthe raid was made by Confed- rntA tiYvmn nn hit nrint.iner nfflnft in R li erate troops on his printing office in R 1 eighv wrote to President Johnson in hie behalf, and he was permitted to return home on parole, and was finally released Towards the close of the year Governor Vanoe removed to Charlotte and resumed the practice of the law. Of course, during the war of reconstruc tion, as it may well be termed, it was im possible for Zebdxon B. Vanoe to be ant idle spectator. Although a banned mau,: he took an active part in every stage of the struggle; everywhere and at all times main taming and upholding the rights of the peo pie of North Carolina. In every section of the State was his voice heard, exhorting the people to courage, and to patience, and to hope, and that, too, at a great sacrifice of his private interests. Better times came in 1870, and honest men once more controlling the Legislature; it was thought the day bad tome to make an adequate reward for such long and faithful service in field, in camp, and in the council chamber. Accordingly, on November 26. h. 1870, he was elected by the Legislature t be United States Senator, to succeed Gen Abbott. The Federal Senate, after delu sive hopes held out by its members, refused to remove his disabilities, and on the 2d of January, 1872, his resignation was sent in to the' Senate of North Carolina. There upon , General Matt Yv. Kansom was elected In his place, and was enabled, by personal appeals to Senators, to secure the passage of a bill removing his disabilities. During the campaign that followed, Gov ernor 'Vanoe took! an active and distinr guished part, canvassing both the Eastern and Western portions of the State. . Every where he went he was received with the most cordial and enthusiastic .welcome. Governor Vance's disabilities being now removed, the eyes of the great mass of the people everywhere were turned to him as the man to fill the vacancy caused by the expiration of John Pool's term in the United States Senate, but their expec a- tions were not fulfilled. The recOllecti h of the Senatorial contest in 1872 is how. ever one that especially in the light of re. cent events we do not care to dwell upon but rather the bright anticipations of the future. ' - ; But the years rolled on and the great battle of 1876 drew nigh and the first notes of preparation were for Vance to take the leadership. As the days went by the cry increased, so that when the convention me) it was one grand shout for Vance from the mountains to the seashore; for Vanoh first, last, and all the time. The people had determined to make such an effort as they had never made before to redeem' the State, and in their grand supreme effort they wanted no leader but Vance, lie had not sought the nomination, indeed had done all to prevent it that a good citizen might do against the will of the people; but when their flat went forth that the hour and the man must meet, Vanok straightway buckled on his armor, n r did he put it off until the victory was won Never before since the white man first set his loot upon the sou was there such a campaign in North Carolina as that which ended on the 7th of November, 1876. From one end of the State to the other, and in every portion of it to which he went, it was one triumphal procession. Such ah uprising of the people of all classes and conditions was never Derore witnessed in North Carolina. It was simply amazing. " On the first of January 1877, Mr Vanoe, for the.third time, took the oath Of office as Governor of North Carolina!, and he was reinducted into the office" from which he had .been driven by Federal bay onets to make room forW. W, Holden. It was with feelings of prof oundest gratitude to Almighty God for the great deliverance he had vouchsafed them, that North Carolinians everywhere realized that once more they lived under a government administered by officers of their own free choosing. And .happy was the day, for the long deferred hopes of many dark and weary years had at last ended in fruition. Our triumph was assured, 'our victory complete:, Doubt and .uncertainty, and anxiety as to the result might no .longer interrupt our thoughts by day or disturb our slumbers by night, North Carolina was redeemed, and her sons and daughters once .more free'! The rightful heirs had at last regained their loog-lost inheritance ; the people had come to their own again ! The day was indeed one meet for rejoicing,'ior thanks giving and for humble, fervent gratitude. and the men, and the women, too, who during all those long ' years had labored with an eye , single to the redemption of their State, indifferent alike to the threats and to the blandishments of power, and unmindful of reward -or. the hope of re ward, had a right to enjoy the hour. and they did enjoy . it. People gath ered here from all. sections of the State to see with their own eyes that the day of redemption had actually come. In despite of the fact that almost the entire State-was and had been for a week past covered with snow people came here by the thousand. From an early hour the streets already ptirred to mid-dav life pave nlain evidence 1 : . - i 1 Rnatr iua kuvvvuwiuu tt. ca uv vj. uiuui j VSUV a-WMl throngs crowded the hotels, and halls and streets, and men everywhere wore the ex- pectant look that characterizes them when I consciously waiting for the supreme hour of some grand crisis. ' Nor have the great expectations of that long to be remembered day been disappointed, for peace . and order and good govern ment prevail throughout the State. Our people everywhere within our borders realize that at last there is rest from the hor rors of civil war; rest f rommilitary tyranny, and rest from Federal oppression. Goo grant that we may ever so remain. Since his inauguration Governor Vasoe has industriously devoted himself to the duties imposed upon him by his hih office, duties that have beeu neither alto gether easy nor altogether pleasant, for it is hard to bring order out , of disorder, or to restore to Democratic methods a govern ment that has long been accustomed to Radi cal rule, without giving offence even to good men. But it was not only with the cares ''of state that Governor Vance had to contend. He had scarcely taken his seat as Governor I when it became ap parent that the days of : the wife ' of his bosom,i whom he loved with a tenderness and a devotion y never ex celled, were surely numbered. Summer grew into winter and there" was but little hope; winter became summer and there was scarcely life, and then winter came again and with it rest from her suffering, for one who as daughter, wife and mother commanded the love and respect of people of every condition from one end of North Carolina to the other. It is needless to say that the sympathy of the people went out freely and warmly to their Governor in; his deep affliction. Their prayers and their tears and their sympathy, were all his, and well does he know it and gratefully does he remembtr it. Time rolled on, and on the 8th of this month a Democratic Legislature agaii met charged with the duty of electing a United; States Senator. Last night for the third time the Democracy of North Carolina inrougn tneir representatives in caucus assembled, put forward Zsbulon B. Vance as their choice to represent the State of North Carolina in the Senate of the United States. And this time we are glad to Enow there are neither divisions nor dissensions in our ranks. Indeed the man ner of the nomination was no less worthy of commendation than the nomination itself, for it was made unanimously and by acclamation amid the greatest enthusiasm. Harmony once more reigns, and on Tues day next the will of the party-will become che act of the State. So mote it be. Let the will of the people ever prevail, THE PA 1ST HOCK ASD DUCKTOWS EX- TJtSMUJf. j To the annual meeting of stockholders, August 1860, Chief Engineer Tckner re ported the completion of the survey of the Western North Carolina Railroad to the western portal of Swannanoa Tunnel, and made the whole cost of the road, from Salis- oury through the mountains to the wesieru slope of the Blue Ridge, $4,211,075. In his -report he said : "One hundred and twenty-two miles ot the road built and equipped for the sum of four million two hundred and eleven thous and six hundred and seven ;y -rive dollars of which one hundred and twelve miles cost a fraction over niuety nve thousand dollars a mile, whilst the len miles in the passage of the Blue Kidge, oust one hund red and i forty thousand dollars per mile. uennemen, inese are me iacts as weu as the figures, and have you not great cause of congratulation at the result? For many will recolltct that some ot the best menus of the road and most ardent admirers of ihe scheme, proclaimed and believed ' that ine i3iue mage couia not be passed lor a sum less than ten million dollars ; yet for a sum less than the one-half of it it has been put under contract to energetic and re sponsible contraciora." The division or section of the road from Swannanoa Gap to Asheville had not been definitely located at the date of this meet ing above referred to, but- the Chief Engi neer, stated that the information he had enabled him to say that four hundred and nine thousand, nine hundred and twenty five dollars would build, equip and com plete tms portion of the road to the French Broad River near Asheville, making in all, one I hundred and forty miles of rail road at a cost of four millions, six hundred and twenty-one thousand , six hundred dollars, j It had not then been determined I,.. , whethea the road from Asheville should extend down thej French Broad River to Paint Rock, and thence to Morristown, Tennessee, or westward through Haywood, Jackson, Macon and Cherokee. In ac cordance with the terms of the amended charter,! and the designs of the company, a corps or. engineers was men surveying both the route from Asheville to Paint . . . Rock and to Ducktown, and had been in the field since the November before, but were not yet ready to report. - The called meeting of stockholders of November 1860, was to receive the report on the - surveys of. both the Paint Rock and tne uucKiown routes, isoth were found entirely , practicable, presenting fewer obstacles and less difficulty than had been universally ; supposed- ? The t Paint Rock route was designated as the French Broad Division, ascertained to be forty four miles in distance, and was estimated to cost, the road complete, without equip ment, $843,048,84, or a fraction less than twenty thousand dollars per mile. The Ducktown route was ascertained to be one hundred and thirty-five and a half miles, and was estimated to cost com pleted, but without equipment, of any kind, $4,873,027.83, or $35,97L27 per mile- stockholders by a vote of three thousand, four hundred and seventeen, to one hundred and seventy-three, adopted the route ' to Ducktown, ; in accordance with what seemed to have been the prefer ence and - recommendation of the Presi dent, Dr. A. M. Powell. In his report to the special meeting of the stockholder?, be said : ; ' j ? VOur friends in the Western counties are now looking with renewed hope to the realization of those i railroad facilities so liberally extended to other sections o cur State to develop and bring into market the treat mineral wealth of that rezion. The advantage in distance irom ine Atlantic . ... ... -" . ..." . .1 .t . . . -l forth in the Report of iyour Chief Erjgi- neer. The completion of this link, thus opening up a raiiroaa communication wra the great T Southwest I would invite an amount of travel over this and contiguous roads, that would, in the end,"; not only orove Drofitable to the road, i but re lieve the State from the burden imposed for their construction. The line down the French Broad to PaiDt Rock, in Doint Of cost, will compare favorably with any line ottne same jengtn in ioeT nwuniaiuuu recions of our State, and ! its construction would probably form a connection I with the Western roads at an earlier day ! than could bn effected by the Ducktown line ; vet, the divergence ; from the general course of the main line of road now com- pleted and in course of construction, would not fail to operate seriously against it, as mere wouia oe no aavaniage in uwuuice over other roads now in operation. Ch; ef Engineer Ttjeneb also said, in his report to the same meeting : " "Between the road to uawonen, or Ducktown, . and that to Paint Rock, the difference in cost is greatly in favor of the Paint Rock line : for i the distance to the Tennessee; line at. Paint Rock is only one- third of that from Asheville to Cawoneh The Cawoneh line, however, passes ninety milesjurther through North Carolina ter ritory, and develops more of its resources : yet, whilst it would cost less to- the state or the com Dan y to build the main trunk of the road to Paint Rock, .rather than to. Cawoneh, it would not accomplish the purposes designed by friends of this im provement, nor make the moat direct connection between common points, and thereby fail to secure; through travel, the source of the greatest revenue to the road. The route by Paint Rock to Cleveland is thirty -seven mileslonger than by Cawoneh, and the travel over the present route would not prooably leave it for a longer road."1. 1! . ; T ' .: The estimates of Engineers are seldom large enough to cover the actual cost and contingencies, of - construction, but the above were ample and in excess, as were the estimates generally of Chief Engineer Tubser, on the Western North Carolina Railroad. I ! In point bf fact the estimates made on the Ducktown route were much tcb liberal, against the work. The Chief Engineer said in his report that the line could have been so located as to reduce the cost to $33,600y per; mile. There were fourteen tunnels of the aggregate length of six thousand feet and involving seventy thousand cubicyards of excavation. Sub sequent examination and modification of the route dispenses with the greater por tion of this tunnel work, and it is now the opinion of Engineers that the estimates of Chief Engineer Turner in 1860, for the Ducktown extension, were thirty-three per cent higher than the work could be let to contract now. With reference both to the Ducktown i 13 and Paint.Rock extensions, the system of employing convict labor on such works of the State would reduce the cost of the railroad construction to a merely nominal sum. the difference between estimates based on the prices of hired labor and the actual cost of construction by convict la bor is readily seen in the fact that it costs an average of thirty cents a day to main tain, teed, qlothe, guard and give medical attendance to convicts employed on the railroad work in our mountains, and that the average, value of each convict's days labor in building railroads, has been ascer tained to be ninety-eight cents on the mountain section of the Western North Carolina Railroad. These prisoners are to be maintained at the expense of the State anyway, and so this labor applied to our works of internal improvement in the mountains practically costs nothing but keeping them there, where the expense' of maintaining them is one-third less than in the penitentiary at Raleigh: it is a matter of economy to employ them in the West, leaving out pf consideration altogether the value of the work they do. But suppose the extension to Ducktown should cost, at Engineers estimate, four millions, and that convict labor can be substituted for two thirds of that sum, instead of- two million six hundred thous and, the outlay of the State in the way of maintaining convicts would be about eight hundred thousand dollars. Hence, for a railroad, one hundred and forty miles in length, and worth four millions, there would have been expended in its construction to completion, eight hun dred thousand dollars for the roadway, and a million three hundred thousand for the superstructure, in all, less than two. million and a quarter,' for a property worth four millions. 1 . The same proportionate decrease would occur on the Paint Rock division under the system of convict ' labor bringing that road down to the neighborhood of ten thousand dollars per mile. It is-therefore, manifestly to the interest of the State, and in the highest degree essential, as a matter of public j policy and State economy, to push both these extensions of the Western North Carolina Railroad with all possible vigor end despatch, employing the largest available convict force upon them., and then . mortgage-the completed permanent roadway for the iron and other material to complete their superstructures, and for the rolling stock to properly , equip the whole of , the Western . North Carolina Railroad. " i Misplacement of one or two types in The Obsebver forms ' (after going to press) on Tuesday morning, resulted in several mistakes. . In : some copies Judge Merkimon'b 1ft ter of withdrawal bore its proper date of January 13 ; in others, Jan uary 1; in others still, January 3. v The aggregate redemption ot municipal indebtedness in. Massachusets last year was $1,331,133, Seventeen cities owe less money than they did a ; year ago, whilst Springfield and Worcester report an in crease respectively of $ 150,461 and $54,760. Gkant s Tons to India. Paris, Jan. 13, 1879. General Grant leaves .this city on Saturday for, Marseilles, to' sail thence for India on the following Thursday (23d) in the regular .French steamer leaving on thatditel:;: ' tlh I J r ..Hl CAPaL-WSMITHEKMAN. On the Slat of De cember, to the town of Tror, Montgomery 3anty, NjC., bytneEev. IW. M. Bosticfc, Mr. a. W. K. Cafkl, ot tbe firm of Capet, Parson Son's, of Capei's MilU, 8. C, to Mias Nahnu fcxiT&cBKAV, of IfOQtgoraery county. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE. Correspondence of Thk obsxkvsb. -New York. Jan. 11. 1879. Messes. Editors: Yesterday afternoon I wished to fill an engagement to dine with a family in Harlem, and so I went to the Ninth street station of the East Side Ele vated Road at half-past five, expecting to reacn liariem, six miles, before six o cIock, the general dinner hour here. At the sta tion 1 found a great crowd packed on the platform, exposed to the keen wind that swept over them at that elevation. W hen ever a tram would come, which was at in tervals of two or three minutes, there would be a rush of men, women and children to get in ; only the strong and rude succeeded, and not those always, for the conductors" would close the gates of the cars, already packed full from the dozen stations lower down town. In this way many of us waited a full hour before we could get in, .and then it ' took another hour to get the elevated train to Harlem, and I got to dinner . about seven o'clock, thoroughly chilled through and through. I made up my mind to t wo con clusions, that I would never go on that road again at that time of day, and. that two or three elevated railroads would hard, ly suffice to accommodate the crowds of business and laoonng men and women who go up town on the east side, after the day's work is done, now they all managed be fore this elevated road was opened, is a mystery. If I could have imagined that twenty trains would pass before I could get a seat, I would have- gone down and taken a horse car and thus saved half an hour. It wDuld have taken lust two hours to walk to Harlem. When the train reached 125th street, the last station but one, there were only twenty or thirty persons in it. And this morning, in . coming down town, there were .but the like small number, swelled to a crowd before I got off at 9lh street. I was reminded of a trip I once took to the mountains of New Jersey, when a long train started from Jersey City, and in the course of eighty miles car after car had been left till "only one remained. This was Saturday afternoon, when hundreds of people were going home to spend Sunday with their families. On Monday morning I started back in the one car, which bad become a dozen before we reached Jersey City. The West side Elevated road, in which I frequently ride, is far more comfortable, and far better managed. , It is moderately heated with steam, the officers are polite, and the passengers are either of a far bet ter c'as8, or they are restrained from rude ness by the general air of order and decency wnicn prevails. The manv friends of Rev. Dr. DemB at the South will be interested in the fol lowing account of his church-: 1 he Church of the strangers (Rev. Dr. Deems, pastor) celebrated its eleventh an niversary on the first Sunday in Jauuary. It commenced with 32 members, has en rolled 930, and now has .560 members on its books. It began in the University Chapel with no property. Tt now has a large church which seats over twelve hun dred people; also a building containing chapel, infant school-ioom, parlor, study, and a room for the Sisters of the Stranger. It has no pew rents, depends upon sub scriptions and free-will offerings, and closed the year with not one cent of bonded or J. floating debt, some money in the treasury for church purposes, and several hundred dollars for the support of a mission which it maintains in China. It is open the year round. The communion is administered every first Sunday, and there has never been a communion without additions. On the first Sunduy in January thirteen were added.". New Yoek, Jan. 13, 1879. I have just had the pleasure of a visit from Bishop Lyman, who returned on Saturday from his long tour in Europe. He is in fine health, and preached yester day at the church of the Incarnation. He says we have no idea of the distress in England ; that be has been sounding the praises of North Carolina wherever he has been, and is hopeful of a good effect in inducing immigration. I hope he will give to the readers of The Observer further accounts of his travels, particularly in Spain, Algiers, and Corsica, countries out of the way of stereotyped -travel. In Corsica he was in the room ib which Na poleon, Bonaparte was born. -Returning from church yesterday, I passed a lady in earnest talk with a red faced fellow, whose nose had evidently been blossomed by other means than natural. She was a stranger to me, though coming out of the next door to my board ing bouse. She wished me to stop and join in the conversation, but I civillv de clined, and went to my room for a letter which I wished to mail. When I had done that, and was returning to my lodg -ings, I met the same lady again, and she said that that poor fellow was half clad and hungry he had no stockings and there were holes in his coat he confessed that he was a drunkard, and had been drinking, but he had no work and was hungry. So she had taken him in her house and fed him, and given him a bun dle of clothing. I asked her if she was i nut afraid that he would steal something whilst she was out ? "Oh, I left my husband with him," she replied. She then related how 6he had been at ! one of Murphy's temperance meet ings where a man confessed- that he was a drunkard and a cast-away, but a few kind words, such as he was not accus tomed to hear, had reformed him , and made a man of him again. This lady was right and I wrong ; but among the intol erable bores of life the drunken bore stands pre-eminent in my estimation ; yet I think I must try to follow this good la dy's example the next time one of this class comes to me, and it will not be long before the opportunity will be presented, for there might be mustered here a large army of drunken beggars, males and fe males. But how is a man whose whole time is occupied in business to know any thing about them ? Happily for the world there are women like my chance acquaint ance of yesterday who are willing to give their time as well as material aid to the destitute and erring. And if she' should succeed in reforming one of them, what a crown of glory it will secure for her in the Hereafter, even Such as. the good Samari tan earned! But suppose she do not suc ceed! At any rate --"she has done what she could." '.', f Where the World of yesterday picked up the following item I cannot tell : "A Baptist preacher in North Carolina has read the Bible through fifteen times in the last fifteen years, by torch-light. , Last year, besides raising with his own hands two bales of cotton, fifty barrels of corn and 200 bushels of potatoes, he travelled 2,000 miles, preached 120 sermons and re ceived for,hi8 ministerial services $120. . Many years ago an Episcopal minister in the Western part of our State was paid seventy-five cents a year and as many bushels of potatoes as he could raise on 50 acres of land, and quite recently an old friend made the following report to the Episcopal Convention in conformity to the requirements of the Canon : "Salary promised to the Rector, nothing. Salary paid to him, enough." Another Treasurer of a Vestry reported: "Salary promised the Rector, nothing. ; Salary paid to him, nothing." This last, as might have been expected, was starved out, and is now somewhere in the neighborhood of this city. To the credit of his people it ought to be added, however,' that he desired nothing at that time. This was not worse than the case of the Bishop of California, who in a few years' service there received seven thousand dollars and spent nine . thousand. He was rich and could afford But the World has another clerical item. which it may be well to insert here, since it may awaken the attention of people to the wants of their clergymen before they " rhe Rev. W. F. Checkley, assistant minister 01 ou ram s episcopal Church, Toronto, really starved to death two weeks ago. some years since he was engaged at $800 a year, but the congregation could only pay $400, and , on - that sum Mr. Checkley had to keep alive himself and his own family or five or six children, in cluding an adult son who had both his hands amputated, two children of a dead brother and an invalid sister. Nothing was known of the extreme poverty of the family until Mr. Checkley's death, when it was ascertained that the household had lived on bread, and bread alone, for two years, forgetting the taste of meat. Some times not even bread was to be had. Mr. Checkley was so enfeebled by hunger that he sunk at once under a slight attack of typhoid. As soon as the real state of things became known the neighbors and congiegation onered assistance lavishly. the matter was alluded to from the pulpits of some of the churches and it is likely that an ample lund will be raissd and set tled upon the widow and her famuy." . ' ' H. Special Correspondence of The Obssbvxe. Washington, D. C Jan. 14, 1879. Messrs. Editors : Both Houses of Congress have gone actively to work. . In the House this morning the consideration of the' Geneva award bill was set aside for the consideration of the Mexican pension bill, and other wars. The bill provide a pension for all who served sixty days in the Mexican war, and to all who served thirty days in the Creek war of 1835 and of the Florida war. The bill is how being discussed In the (Jommittee of the Whole. Congress will not get through the vast amount of business . now before it, and some writer suggests that the Forty-six h Congress should meet in March and con tinue in session until the business is com pleted. This is a good idea. The country has but little idea of the vast quantity of business pending before Congress. Each committee is crowded to the fullest extent. It is as difficult to get anything through Congress as to have a hearing before, the Supreme Court of the United States. 1 know of no remedy except Congress sits perpetually, and the people send men to Congress who will work with all diligence and remain always at their post. Over five thousand bills are pending before Congress, and perhaps not more than five hundred of that number will be acted upon. The appropriation bills take up most of the time of Congress, and the reat measures of relief fr individuals and for the coun'ry at large, are crowded out- by the . privileged position given the committee on appropriations. The rules of government for these bodies tend to the defeat of all business. The speaker has it in his power to delay, postpone or defeat a iy measure, by little preferences given to the most "brassy . and "most cneeRy. One very curious thing appears in Con gress, that is, that the greatest demagogue and the biggest "humbug" obtains the greatest popularity and notoriety, while the best and often the ablest and most active men are kept back. We have too many members of Congress who will come into the committee room or House after the regular hour who never know what is going on and are always opposing a meritorious measure simply because . they know nothing about it. This lazy, indolent conduct is a great drawback to the success of busiucss, and yet the country would be surprised to know how many such men get to Con gress. V mortality among 'congressmen. In noting the mortality of Congressmen it is said "during a period of Utile more than a year nine Congressmen have died Senators Morton and Bogy ; Representa tives Leonard, of Louisiana; Quinn, of New York? Welsh, of Nebraska, Wil liams, of Michigan; Douglas, of Virginia; Julian Hartridget of Georgia, and still later Gustavus Schleicher, of Texas. MORMONISM POLYGAMY. In 1862 Congress passed a law making polygamy a - criminal offence. And a case has been pending in the Supreme Court ot the United States for several years, which has at last been decided. The question was brought before the court on an appeal case of long standing, in which was in volved the flimsy pretence of the Mormons that their practice of this barbarism bad the protection of that clause of the Con stitution prohibiting interference with re ligious fai' h and its practice. It is gratifying to the country, and will be to Christian morality everywhere, to know that the court was unanimous in its opinion, the Chief Justice having rendered it. It covers all the points involved in the claimed rights of the Mormons for poly gamy, and decides "that it is not under the protection of the religion clause of the Constitution; that the plea of religious conviction is not a valid defense for a per son committing bigamy ; and that Con gress did not step beyond its constitutional power in the enactment of the law of 1862 making it a criminal offence." personal. ' , Hon. Thos. L. Clingman, arrived in the city this morning from Raleigh. W. IL M. Tbe Sun Clear tut in ad. By Special Cable to the N. T. Herala, 14tn.j London, Jan. 13, 1879. J. Norman Lockyer, the distinguished English astro nomer, has just informed me that he has obtajned evidence, that the bright lines of the Solar chromosphere are chiefly , lines due to the not yet isolated bases of four teen so-called elements, and that the solar phenomena iu their totality are, in all pro bability, due to dissociation at the phos tospheric level and association at higher levels. In this way vertical currents in the solar atmosphere, both ascending and descending, cause intense absoiption in tbe spots ; their association with the facu la? and the apparently continuous spectrum of the corona and its structure thus find easy solution. Mr. Lockyer thus, ap parently, explains all .difficulties met by the observed of the solar eclipse uf last year. . . l . . v - .v.; , The Tobacco Tax. 1 Special to the Richmond D'spatch, 15th. Washington, Jan. - 14. To day the finance Committee of tbe Senate held a meeting, but did not take up tbe tobacco question. It will do so, however, Thurs day. I asked a Northern Senator who is a member of the commitiee what would be the report of the committee, and he said it looked to him, after a discussion of tbe question over a lunch, that the report Will be in favor of a reduction to 20c I then saw a Southern Senator from a tobacco State, and be concurred in this opinion. The friends of reduction started with the idea this winter that the report would be against any reduction, and yet believed they could, in spite of an unfavorable re port, get the Senate to vote for 16c. ' The effect of a . report in favor of 20c would be a defeat of Mr. Morrill, Commissioner Raum, and secretary Sherman, and would bring the question before the Senate right away. " "" ':. ! " - mB m -O Berlin has 1.305 first-class and 2,962 second-class cabs,' 182 oinmbusaee, an l 24 street railroad cars. in alt, 5,020 p bt c carriages. A "course" in a sec f d-clats drosky costs about 13 cents for two miles. KETUEMCIlnEIVr AND REFORM ' ; 2,000 vii. 2oo. ' ; Correspondence of The Obskkvbki Misses. Editobs : In keen'ms with other tery extravagant assertions ot th "eiSQ I ee.K stated that, the bill of Senator Graham; now pending, repeal ing the law authorizing the distribution off bjj private acts ana resolutions among Jus. - U3emu me reace, win save the state Saw thousand dollar. A simDle calculation will showhow reliable this veritable fi2uW is, but altogether'as reliable in this instance as he is in many other statements! he! haa made upon this and other' "reform" mea sures. " ; - : . . I have not seen Senator Graham's hill but I suppose he proposes to increase; the number ot the copies of the laws as re commended by the Secretary of State, In the calculation I shall infer this increase is one thousand making two thousand seven nunc red ot the mutilated conies oroDospri to be published. i The Legislature of 187677 was in ses sion a month longer than this one can sit. But I shall supp8e the present Willi pass as many private acts and resolutions as its predecessor, , which is hardly probable. Now in the . last published volume the p-ivate acts and resolutions cover less) than two hundred pages say just two hundred pages for tbe simplicity of the calculation. This would take just' thirty five reams of paper,. which at five dollars a ream, (it can be purchased for less) - would make the paper cost just ona hundred and seventy uve aonars. - . Tbns the printing of these two hundred additional pages in twenty-seven hundred volumes at 25 cts; per token would amount to $78.00 by actual calculation. The account therefore stands thus i .Saved in paper, $175.00 Saved in press work, 78.00 - i Total amount saved, $253.00 There will be no saving in type setting . or binding,, as the type for the full edition must be set anyhow, and the binding will be tbe same for the mutilated as for the full edition. I , And now for tbe offset to this immense saving. ..ihe secretary oi state must, of course, prepare a new index for tbe mutW lated edition, which will differ very mate rially ifrom the full one. The .refbrnr figurer of the News knows that the Public Fnutef will be entitled to and will receive pay for setting up the new index. It will be fair to calculate that the index to the new volume will be as full as to theiold forty pages. Then deducting one-furtL, ' ten pages, for the private acts, we will have thirty pages ot nonpareil type for the index to the mutilated edition which nt forty cents per thousand ems jwill make just $55 to be paid for type setting. So the account will stand: Savedasabove $353.00 Additional type setting 55.00 Total amount saved $11)8.00 or a little less than ten per cent of the amount so veraciomsly guessed- at by the Newt. ! But after all is this great reform meas ure practical ? Is it not necessary for the Justices of the Peace in the localities where many of these so called private acts are operative to be familiar with their pro visions ? 1 open the last volume ot laws at random, and upoa page 695 Private Acts, chapter 67, section 10, I find that fa an act to authorize the construction of a local road in Cherokee and Clay counties, the Company is authorized to sueandr;s Cover before a Justice of The Peace. C Then 1 suppose- the Secretary of State must incorporate a similar private" act ia the copies to be sent t Cherokee and Chy, and leave it out in the volumes to be B'j'U to other counties, and the index arranged to suit the Cherokee, and Clay edition. And separate and distinct editions must ht prepared for each of the ninety-four counties of tbe Slate, and all for the sa'ie -of 'ami in the name, of reform. j Will legislators be guided or -influence by such . recaless and untrustworthy ad visers ? If they do they will indeed aL. for bread and receive a stone. I Facts and Figukes. Presidential Ilumorsv. . Special to the Biytimore San, lpta. , Washington, Jan. '14. Notwithstand ing that President Hayes has twice solemn ly declared that he would1 not btta fcanui date for re-election, it is a fact that cer'aia politicians from the South and tie North have ! gone to the 'White House and as sured him that if certain things were doue delegations to the next Republican Con vention eould be worked up in his interest. Thesame statements have beenimade to Secretary Sherman as to himself. . A short time ago a paper was drawn up for presen tation to Secretary Sherman by a numto of politicians in a Southern State, jin which it was alleged that all the Fed vial 'office holders in the State are hard 4U work fur Grant, 4nd that if he (Sherman) would have thetn turned out, and put in persons to be named, a unanimous delegation from that State to the Republican National Con vention could be secured in his interest. I . m m mm Female artists are invading the domain of art in France in formidable numbers. In 1874 there were 286 female exhibits at the Salon; there were 312 in 1875; 4-tO in 1876;' 648 in 1877, and 762 in 1878. Two Went up to tbe Temple to Fraj. i Two went to pray ? ; O, rather Bay, j " Oue weut to brag, the ither to praj ; 4 One stands op close and treads on higb, r Where tne Other dares not bend hts eye ; One nearer to God'a altar trod, The other to the altar 's God. A"1 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS DR. J. B. DUNN, Office No. 6 Mahler Building. FATETTETIlXE STREET. -' ' ... - -- .-: - , Messages left at the Drug 8to e of j F. H. Heartt will receive prompt attention, Jnllm i ( K j. PURSUANT to the powers contained in ! mortgage deed, executesl July 1, ST6, aasa I recorded in the Register's offic for the coumj j of Wane, boo 44. page 604, ws will sell at pf -lie auction, at the Court house .door, in the -'? J of Raleigh, on I I Thursday, 20th February IVcit, ;.. : l , - : - j '' A VliUABX. HOUSE AN p LOT, Now occupied by Phil. Thiem, Esq on & Southwest corner of Cabarrus and BlooaMOf"1 streets, iu said city, y ' j j TERMS CASH. GRAT A STAMPS, Attorneys for Mortgagee. ,aul6dtds IMPORTANT SALE. BY tlRTUE OF TflE powers contained in a mortgage from ( U. kuj an l wife to J. T. JLeach, registered J" Boos 45, p. 440, Renter's offifce. of W aKe cyon t, I aaall on Monday, Pebruaty-llth, W Court House door, iu Kaleigh.iproeeed to expf to public sale th interest of said Kass and In 110 acres of land, lyin. 014 Walnut creek. j Wae county, and bounded b the lands of liam Scott and Thes. G. Jenktas. The. Ho wiv j v. B ase and others 1 hwaniCt is buuI.w p-1or .mortgages, which Will be announced day of aie . - J. T. UvAC.il. janl3-0t Attorneys for Mortgagee. Mortgage Sale.
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